Collections of travels through Turkey into Persia, and the East-Indies : Giving an account of the present state of those countries ...
This is a 1684 London travel collection by Jean-Baptiste Tavernier and François Bernier, printed for Moses Pitt, recounting journeys through Turkey, Persia and the East Indies for an English readership. Its pictures are small black-and-white copperplate and woodcut plates: ornamented initial letters with interlaced foliage, a diagram of an octagonal enclosure, and a circular seal carrying Arabic-style calligraphy within a ring of script. A designer might take the dense, carved-looking strapwork of the decorative letters and the bold calligraphic seal as models for ornament and monogram work.
